Wit is absolutely sociable spirit or aphoristic genius.

Sense (for a particular art, science, human being, and so forth) is divided spirit; self-restraint is consequently the result of self-creation and self-destruction.

Philosophy still moves too much straight ahead, and is not yet cyclical enough.

Just as the Romans were the only nation that was truly a nation, so our age is the first genuine age.

Can we expect the redemption of the world from scholars? I doubt it. But the time has come for all artists to join together as a confederation in an eternal league.

A genuinely free and educated man should be able to tune himself, as one tunes a musical instrument, absolutely arbitrarily, at his convenience at any time and to any degree, philosophically or philologically, critically or poetically, historically or rhetorically, in ancient or modern form.

Combine the extremes, and you will have the true center.